Comments on: Best of Both Worlds podcast: Kids, teens, and sleep with sleep expert Lisa Lewis

By: Ellie

Ellie — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:31:21 +0000

@Laura, choir kept you moving, and didn’t require complex calculations when the sun was barely up – or even before! Since you’re a morning person, think about how well you’d focus at 11pm every day… And we wonder why teens’ mental health is suffering? As hard as virtual school was, my kids were a lot less grouchy when they didn’t have to be online until 9am. With 7:45am starts (bus comes 6:50am), they’re easily frustrated and overwhelmed.
Have you checked out StartSchoolLater.net? There may be a local chapter you can join to encourage your kids’ district to follow the advice of pediatricians!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:09:57 +0000

In reply to Jammy.

@Jammy – whoa, that is early! But I distinctly remember going to “zero hour” back in high school in order to sing in another choir so I’m pretty sure that I was up early too…

By: Jammy

Jammy — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:16:14 +0000

We have a 10th grader whose first class starts at 7:10 am. He is up at 5:15 or so and thankfully my husband drives him – they leave at 6:25 (before my alarm goes off at 6:30). I am looking forward to listening to this interview.

By: Irina

Irina — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:25:50 +0000

It would be hard for me to have five different rotations of breakfast food during the week! Wow! I only have two options for my school-age kids: oatmeal or a bagel/toast with lots of butter (and jam). I usually cook a big pot of steel-cut oatmeal on Sunday and we eat it every day of the week with different toppings like raisings, cranberries, dried dates/apricots, coconut flakes, bananas, etc. Then on the weekends, we usually put together a nice brunch with eggs, bacon, pancakes or waffles, etc.

By: Nele

Nele — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:55:00 +0000

My mind still boggles at this. In Belgium, where I grew up, the earliest school would start was 8:20, but after a couple of years this was 9AM.

By: ltg

ltg — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:33:22 +0000

This year our district changed the school start times. High schools now start at 8:30am they changed the middle and elementary school times accordingly. Middle schools start at 8:05am and elementary school starts at 7:30am to allow not act like a headless chicken. Wednesdays are early release, but high schools don’t do that, instead, they start at 9:30am!
I am not an early riser at all, so I appreciate this very much. When house hunting, my number one condition had been to be in walking/biking distance to elem/middle/high schools, because no way I could (would!) drive my kids to school every day (which adds up to 16 years total due to kids’ age difference). We all need sleep.